I get this message, "Rosetta python projects needs 4481.47MB more disk space. You currently have 14592.02 MB available and it needs 19073.49 MB." Rosetta won't process any work units until this is fixed. I've tried researching the problem. I've looked at my preferences but I can't find anything. Anyone know how to fix this? It seems like a rather storage space greedy program. Thanks for your help.

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Try this

Pythons eat everything :()
In bionc managers disk tab try this setting :-

Use no more than - 500 GB . . [the total size of my disk its on , this is so I can run 45 work units together , [I have now seen Rosetta using up to 352GB of disk and 80GB of RAM] don't worry about setting this BIG.
Leave at least ## GB free . . [untick this box not needed]
Use no more than ## % of total . . [untick this box not needed]

You don't need to mess with web settings.
Boinc will only use what disk space it needs
This works for me , so try it if you get "Message from server" problems.
And if you have a system that can run more than that `do the math` . . . .
From this thread https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=14903

With `only` 32GB of ram you may find that it will only run max of 11 python workunits together
See this post https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=14919&postid=105083

I've been running Rosetta for over 10 years at least and never had this problem. I hate having to unleash Rosetta on the entire SSD drive, I would not like to lose my drive capacity to Rosetta and it will eat it up with writes. It's a 2 TB WD Black SN750. Thank you very much for your help!

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I just started crunching for Rosetta again because WCG is down for the next 2 months. I connected to R@H and no work was available because I didn't have VirtualBox. I didn't want VB but I installed it anyway. Now I keep getting the same messages about not enough storage. I've given boinc 50GB but VB seems to be squandering it. Some work units are being done, but not much. Think I might uninstall VB and check for some other temporary project to work on. Is FoldIt still around?

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I just started crunching for Rosetta again because WCG is down for the next 2 months. I connected to R@H and no work was available because I didn't have VirtualBox. I didn't want VB but I installed it anyway. Now I keep getting the same messages about not enough storage. I've given boinc 50GB but VB seems to be squandering it. Some work units are being done, but not much. Think I might uninstall VB and check for some other temporary project to work on. Is FoldIt still around?

Each Python slot folder needs about 8.3GB uncompressed
If you run all cores, then you need to give around 66.5GB per machine minimum.
Just give Python (all cores) 70GB and it should be happy. If it kicks up the drive space error again, increase the allocation again by .5 or 1GB until it goes away.

I'm not giving it another byte. It's enough I donate my computer power and electricity to process it. I'm not allocating a huge amount of storage as well. They can fix this storage grab as far as I'm concerned. None of the other projects demand this amount of storage space to compute their WUs.

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I'm not giving it another byte. It's enough I donate my computer power and electricity to process it. I'm not allocating a huge amount of storage as well. They can fix this storage grab as far as I'm concerned. None of the other projects demand this amount of storage space to compute their WUs.

They don't use it as far as I can see. They just ask (demand) for it.
So you're saying you like to have free disk space that isn't used for anything, rather than it be asked for but not actually used?
Struggling to see the difference, apart from wilfully not using your PC's resources for what you previously wanted it to do.

I agree the wording is confusing, but your choice.

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I'm not giving it another byte. It's enough I donate my computer power and electricity to process it. I'm not allocating a huge amount of storage as well. They can fix this storage grab as far as I'm concerned. None of the other projects demand this amount of storage space to compute their WUs.

Its enough to give it...blah blah blah...?
Get lost. If it is that much trouble, then go somewhere else.
You are one other big projects, do you have the same problem with them?

Your bitching about electric costs, but how much is your system worth?
Looks like a prebuilt system with your specs is about $2,000
And it can be used as a gaming PC as well.

I built my lesser custom unit for about half that money.
My electricity costs are at least double yours since I live in Europe.
I limit my system to 16 hours a day running.

So I don't know what your problem is, but if you going to gripe over a "storage grab" then you really should look at how much "storage" stuff like games and videos use.

What you fail to understand about python is that it is a very complex mathematical model that has been put into graphical form.
This goes deeper and larger than anything else RAH does.
So the information that they are looking at is very large.

Simply put, if you don't like python then stop accepting these tasks and wait in line on a empty queue to be filled with the occasional 4.2 tasks that don't use so much room.
But stop whining. If your not up to the challenge then don't accept it.

OK sorry, I get it now. Actually though increasing disk allocation in BOINC manager did not make a difference. When I increased disk allocation in Rosetta computing preferences to default 100 GB the WUs began pouring in.

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I'm not giving it another byte. It's enough I donate my computer power and electricity to process it. I'm not allocating a huge amount of storage as well. They can fix this storage grab as far as I'm concerned. None of the other projects demand this amount of storage space to compute their WUs.

Its enough to give it...blah blah blah...?
Get lost. If it is that much trouble, then go somewhere else.
You are one other big projects, do you have the same problem with them?

Your bitching about electric costs, but how much is your system worth?
Looks like a prebuilt system with your specs is about $2,000
And it can be used as a gaming PC as well.

I built my lesser custom unit for about half that money.
My electricity costs are at least double yours since I live in Europe.
I limit my system to 16 hours a day running.

So I don't know what your problem is, but if you going to gripe over a "storage grab" then you really should look at how much "storage" stuff like games and videos use.

What you fail to understand about python is that it is a very complex mathematical model that has been put into graphical form.
This goes deeper and larger than anything else RAH does.
So the information that they are looking at is very large.

Simply put, if you don't like python then stop accepting these tasks and wait in line on a empty queue to be filled with the occasional 4.2 tasks that don't use so much room.
But stop whining. If your not up to the challenge then don't accept it.

Well for your information, Mr. PC expert, it's not a gaming computer. It's a helluva gaming computer I built myself with top performance and plenty of bling. The graphics card is good but the prices are beginning to drop precipitously as supply catches up with demand and it will be upgraded soon, or wait till late Summer, early Fall and see what the RTX 4000s are like. That Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 3071 TI I got will run rings around that duel GTX 1080 4 gig SLI setup you're running anyway. The whole thing is better than anything you're running or have ever run I guarantee it. So eat your heart out...Greg!

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